Boyds, Washington
This photograph, taken in 1915, shows a family outside of a railroad section house in Boyds. The community--named for early settler Adam Boyd--relocated to make way for Grand Coulee Dam, which inundated the original town site in 1942.
About this community
- River
- Columbia River
- Established
- 1860
- Inundated
- 1942
The community that was displaced
- Displacement cost
- $15,237,857
- Property value
- $528,026
- Vocations
- farmer, fisherman, rancher
- Birthplaces
- local